The Archbishop calling his message pro-marriage and not anti-gay and said his service wasn’t political. “This was Sunday Mass, so this wasn’t about politics, it was more about prayer and principal and preaching and the Bible and calling back to what’s best,” he said.

But several parishioners walked away from his service, offended by his use of prayer to oppose the controversial legislation.

“We’re used to that. People have been walking away from God’s law,” said Dolan “They even walked away from Jesus so we’re kind fo used to that.”